14th and Peachtree was our Haight Ashbury, complete with a park at the end of 14th. The Atlanta scene hadn't deteriated yet. Word came the Grateful Dead were going to show up at the Park. Of course everybody went. Joe South, Delany and Bonny were cool, but everybody was waiting for the Dead. Purple Judy came by with a hand full of acid. "Where did you get these?" "A guy has a big jar and is passing them out." I took two. The Dead had set up in a picnic pavilion and I was standing in front about 4 feet away from Jerry, eye contact totally tuned in for minutes, hours, eternities before he broke away and tuned into others. Everybody was tripping high vibe. Somebody spiked the cops' Coke and giving one cop piggy back rides, while he was shouting, "I don't have to do this anymore!" Those days it wasn't like going to see somebody famous. It was like going to see extended members of a very hip family which we appreciate, experience and enjoy. Wishing y'all peace and lots of love in your lives.

This was a night to experience! (read about it here: http://www.thestripproject.com/Hippies_Stories/Entries/2007/5/19_Dead_in_Piedmont_Park.html
Hear Duane Allman's "yes there is a mountain" riff in Lovelight?
I'd seen the Dead before and many times afterwards, but this night broke through dimensions

and a good solid Dew for 69. TC's contributions are evident throughout. Even the feedback in DS sounds right there. The 11 is solid, with one of the longest intro jams. I wish they hadn't stopped playing New Potato Caboose by this time; it could have taken up some of the excessive 37 minutes devoted to Lovelight.

I just spent the last 4 evenings this week going through every lovelight there is just to find a version I have been craving and lost. Just found it tonight, thanks god. I never expected it to take this long... For this version not to be on the top 10 list, or even honorable mention, just for the guitar work from 2:30 to 4:06, is surprising (although that may be due to the quality of the recording?).

The sycopation that settles in with the drums at 00:16 is so groovy... Pig Pen's off-key "Whoa-no!" just as the guitar comes back in 1:56... it settles down and Jerry, at 2:30 seems to say get ready to live.... but nothing like the note of foreshadowing at 2:43... Then, after listening to so many, I realized this is one of the few versions where he stays on the high note at 2:49... and keeps teasing it. my favorite part in the whole piece is the double bend at 2:53... more descending scales... Drum change at 3:08... the another peak to the two note riff at 3:31... back and forth... absolutely incredible how it all fits together.

I can go to sleep now content...

decent recording. not the best. first four songs are a little rough. and then great 69 dead! dark star eleven and lovelight are top-notch. as someone said you have to hear pig and the crowd during Lovelight.

What a great show to highlight how the sound this band was able to put together has aged so well.

as typical for the period, a GREAT DS>SS>11 combo. deadlists ranks the Dark Star as one of the best of '69, and i concur. Solid show all the way thru.

Pig pen pulled me up on stage and sat me in front of a rear floor monitor then found a beautiful dark haired woman child, pulled her up and sat her next to me.
There use to be twin houses on 14th I stayed in the house on the right. A true hippy crash pad.

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"This day in GRATEFUL DEAD History"

1969 Soundbard.

"Classic" 1969 Sound.

It's always nice to listen to the original GRATEFUL DEAD perform these songs the way we first heard them forty years ago. Back when Pigpen was the exciting part of the show...

I highly recommend adding this show to your 1969 GRATEFUL DEAD collection.

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Eat, Drink, Be Merry and Listen to the GRATEFUL DEAD.

Thanks for the LOVE from 1969.

I was 15 when I went to this festival in Atlanta and the day after party with the Dead.

http://subgeniusslack.blogdrive.com/archive/59.html

What a time. What a celebration of freedom.

A great night! The first time I saw the Dead. on Pink Peace Sign.

Rupert - saw your review - I think I know you from those old Atlanta days - did you go to Grady and did you hang with Kathy (I think that was her name) at the house on 13th Street - or was it 12th?

Man! This version of Lovelight is sick. Hear how Pig really works the crowd in this one. Show gets 5 stars for this tune and the audience alone!

Dark star is quality
Good show, the beginning of that eleven is a part of st stephen

This was a "thank you" free concert staged by the organizers of the first Atlanta Pop Festival which had gone off quite well a few days before. Opening for the Dead in Piedmont Park picnic pavilion were Delaney & Bonnie, Spirit and Chicago Transit Authority . . . amazing that this was taped! Pigpen was hobbling around with a cast on one of his legs . . . we drove to the bay area right after this show and later lived on St Stephen's Farm in Tenn

This rough and tumble show has good energy and a real fine Dark Star. Mama Tried is a bit of a trainwreck and Casey Jones is the old rough draft, only a notch above the version from 6/22/69.

sound quality not perfect, but absolutely fine. great playing.

This was my first Deadshow. Rode on My Dad's shoulders during most of the show. I was one year old! It took me 15 years to rediscover the dead. By that time the sound had changed, but the spirit remained! Now the spirit still manages to slip through tight fisted corporate fingers via this internet stream. Bob Weir in a penstripe suit? Hippy Flower Power Ideals bringing in hard cash on slick packed compact discs for a new generation of yuppies looking back to the past-perhaps looking back and wondering what the spirit was that they don't grasp though tight fists grabbing for hard cash? Keep on streaming!

This is a very underrated Dead show. Apparently this was a free concert, and due to the band's lack of pressure to do well (not that there was much anyway) they pulled off an incredible show, bursting with energy. However, the first several songs are rough, with the exception of a very early Casey Jones (with a different intro and instrumental sections) and High Time and Morning Dew have some very rough Jerry vocals.
But the Dark Star is fantastic, and the beginning jamming is landmark, taking 13:32 (!) to hit the first verse. Hear the audience go nuts, it's that good. I still prefer 11/2/69's Star, but this one is damn close. Amazing 37-minute Lovelight to close out this show.
Plus, this is one of those shows that has DICK'S PICKS written all over it. Though the quality is very raw with considerable hiss, that could be cleaned up for a Dick's Picks. Smoking show.

Just the pure story behind this show makes the notes rip through you harder. The sound quality isn't excellent, but nothing that will keep you from listening to it again. Truthfully an amazing show all the way from the first track to the last...not something that can always be said for dead shows. Recording quality is dwarfed by the actual quality of sound that the dead display. Their notes are spot on and flawless. Very clear and focused show. I love it.

nice dark star...too bad they were getting terrible feedback during the first 15 minutes....why wasn;t this mentioned in the 1st review? great playing once again.....nice quality too except for the feedback..